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Corsair has long been a leading manufacturer of PC components and, given the range of parts and accessories they produce, it was almost inevitable that they’d eventually move into the prebuilt PC space. They found early success with their compact Corsair One, and that trend continues with the even more …

The novels of James Baldwin were shamefully under-explored during his lifetime. So Barry Jenkins’ faithful interpretation of Baldwin’s 1974 love story goes some way towards addressing this slight, even if it will be the success of Jenkins’ Best Picture-winner Moonlight (opens in new tab) (rather than, say, Baldwin’s Go Tell …

Spyro the Dragon was the first game I ever bought with my own money. After months of doing chores around the farm to earn a bit of scrap, I remember gleefully directing a Toys R Us employee to the game, holding it firmly in my hands all the way to …

J.K. Rowling is back. As in really back. If 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (opens in new tab) expanded the universe she first introduced with the Harry Potter stories, then The Crimes of Grindelwald takes things not just wider but deeper. Given this is part two of …

Hi there. As some of you may know I am a recovering Stardew Valley addict. Having spent real-world money on the game three times now (PC, PS4 and Nintendo Switch if you must know), and sunk hundreds of hours into my farm, my crops and my animals, I am very, …

The world of gaming cans is a confusing one, and with the offerings getting more and more expensive, it’s refreshing to see a headset that enters the market with a sub $100/£100 price tag, but without losing any of the features that you’d want from a premium alternative. And that’s …

Ruben Fleischer’s Venom has many questions to answer. Can it do justice to one of Marvel’s most iconic antiheroes, an alien symbiote that can run, leap and swing like Spider-Man but likes to bite off people’s heads? Can it survive on its own merits and successfully launch its own franchise …

Can a sister of the cloth succeed where the son of Krypton and Tom Cruise stumbled? In Hollywood’s over-indulgence of expanded universes, the spook-iverse built around James Wan’s two Conjuring films and its demon-doll Annabelle offspring seems to be in sturdy shape: more so, surely, than the wobbly DCEU or …

Based on a true story (or, as the opening credits put it, some “fo’ real shit”), Spike Lee’s new joint BlacKkKlansman sees an African- American cop infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan in 1970s Colorado. A period piece? Yes, but its Black Power rallies, N-bombs and burning crucifixes are primed to …

Eleven years on from Steven Soderbergh’s sparky trilogy (2001-07), this sister caper gleefully flaunts its family resemblance. A stylish, amusing but over-faithful offshoot, it swaps casino-cracking for raiding the red-carpet riches at the swanky Met Gala. Newly released jailbird Debbie Ocean (sibling of the apparently deceased Danny) has long had …